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Ask HN: Moving to SF. Which offer should I take?

by fananta on 6/4/19, 6:15 PM with 7 comments

I'm fortunate enough to have a few job offers, all at the same level and relative same comp (base + stock).

Some of these companies are public which makes the comp more liquid and some are not.

The offers I have are from Instacart, Flexport, Square, and Uber. How would you rank them?

  • by lhorie on 6/4/19, 7:23 PM

    I'd ask:

    1) what type of person are you financially. If you're risk-averse, stocks are preferable since they let you convert into different investment vehicles earlier, whereas if you're risk-tolerant RSUs and options are a bigger gamble - the latter much more so

    2) having talked to the teams, which one seems most interesting

    I wouldn't worry too much about gossip/social cachet. Speaking as someone who does technical interviews at one of the companies you mentioned, I can say that for engineering positions, interviewers at future employers will only really be interested in whether you can do good engineering work.

  • by halfbrown on 6/4/19, 6:24 PM

    Square, Flexport, Uber, Instacart... in that order. The reasons are myriad, but they include a combination of long-term viability, visibility within the market, stability in (or of) their industry, executive team (including the "gossip" surrounding it), and the social cachet a job at each place would look to a future employer, among other reasons.

    Good luck out there!

  • by malandrew on 6/4/19, 9:09 PM

    Uber, Square, FlexPort

    I would rank FlexPort higher for growth potential, but my understanding is that they have a gnarly large Ruby on Rails legacy codebase that I wouldn't want to work on. If I'm wrong here, please correct me.

    I don't think Instacart will do well long-term.